For those of us who live in the US things are and have been scary and depressing for a while, this seems to also be true about quite a few more countries in the world.
If you are living in a country that you deem safe, well functioning and overall a good country to live in, how do you feel? Do you feel anxious about the current state of the world? Also, what country are you in? (Just in case 🫣)
I’m pretty happy
Guatemala.
Good food, good people, good mountains, laid-back fun culture.
incidentally, I am from the states but have chosen not to live in the US for the past decade for reasons that have now become obvious to everyone.
I’m not too worried if the US collapses, there are 200 other countries to live in.
it doesn’t seem like it will collapse entirely, maybe, since that wouldn’t benefit the rich people in charge of it? good luck.
Guatemala is considered more functional and safe than the US these days? Seems a stretch. For what it’s worth I have spent time in both countries.
Is guatemal more functional than the US’ recent attempted violent coup and literal ongoing executive coup of the government?
Yes. Guatemala is more functional than the US government run by a felon rapist who is literally violating the US Constitution, has frozen or defunded critical government operations and is actively erasing the function of its legislative and judicial branches via executive orders.
safe?
last time I was in the states, somebody shot someone else in the head over a parking spot outside the burger place I was eating lunch at.
This is hyperbole compounded by anecdote. The dysfunction in US politics mainly concerns Washington. The USA is a federal state and state-level politics is mostly unaffected. Security is everywhere guaranteed by police, not gangs. And the statistics that I cited remain.
you didn’t cite any statistics to me, but I can drop some knowledge on you.
State level politics has been affected nationwide, civil rights have been affected nationwide down to the personal level.
The executive branch eliminating the other two branches of government is in no way hyperbole.
Trump just signed an executive order declaring that he has the final say on legal matters, overriding any judicial power.
he has also claimed the right to unilaterally disperse or withhold funds, overriding any legislative power.
One branch of the US government (The executive) has taken over the other two branches(The judicial and legislative).
Trump is a convicted felon and a rapist.
none of this is hyperbole.
security is guaranteed by the police? not in the US.
US police rape and murder civilians and children in the US regularly.
US Police can legally abuse, lie to and manipulate civilians without consequence, and enjoy judicial legal immunity for their actions(known as qualified immunity).
The US has a mass shooting every 16 hours.
women in the US literally don’t have control over their own bodies and are denied access to hospitals and healthcare.
The US has by far the highest prison population in the world, run by for-profit corporations who benefit from imprisoning you and your neighbors.
these are not localized problems in DC, the entire US is unstable, exploitative and abusive towards its citizens.